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Issue: Vol. 4543 No. 4: 9 Jan. 2019
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-01-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4543.4.8
Page range: 590–594
Abstract views: 88
PDF downloaded: 2

Redescription of a wall crab spider species from Taiwan: Siamspinops formosensis (Kayashima, 1943) comb. nov., with the first description of males and taxonomic notes (Araneae: Selenopidae)

School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, National Taiwan University, No.1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute, No.1, Minsheng E. Rd., Jiji Township, Nantou 55244, Taiwan.
Luye Junior High School, No.38, Guangrong Rd., Luye Township, Taitung 95541, Taiwan.
Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO National Research Collections Australia, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia. 5Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, National Taiwan University, No.1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
Araneae Selenopidae

Abstract

The wall crab spider Selenops formosensis Kayashima, 1943 was described from three females collected from northern Taiwan (Kayashima 1943a), but subsequently referred to as S. formosanus and S. formosansis in an illustrated handbook on Taiwanese spiders written by the same author (Kayashima 1943b). The original descriptions lacked illustrations of the epigyne or vulva which are extremely useful in determining genera and species of Selenopidae.

 

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